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  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/27/2022

    Payloads: Food Physiology: A diet briefing was attended between the crew and Principal Investigator team in support of the Food Physiology investigation. The Integrated Impact of Diet on Human Immune Response, the Gut Microbiota, and Nutritional Status During Adaptation to Spaceflight (Food Physiology) experiment is designed to characterize the key effects of an enhanced spaceflight …

  • A First Cruise Experience with NASA’s S-MODE Field Campaign

    Mackenzie, a young white woman in a long red coat, poses on the R/V Bold Horizon. She is leaning on the railing, with blue ocean water and a sunset behind her.

    By Mackenzie Blanusa, M.S. student at the University of Connecticut // Aboard the Bold Horizon // I had been patiently waiting and dreaming about this research cruise for months. Yet a few days before traveling from Connecticut to Oregon for ship mobilization, I couldn't shake a feeling of denial – like I couldn't believe I …

  • THE GREAT SPRITES CHASE

    Intricate red lights hover a field. A windmill rises in the background.

    THE GREAT SPRITES CHASE A NASA scientist and night-sky fanatic chase the elusive lights across Oklahoma. The odds are not in their favor. By Lina Tran It wasn't dark enough. We'd driven east for two hours from Oklahoma City, and still, a stubborn red light blinked from a nearby wind farm. Paul Smith sighed with …

  • Space Delivery Arriving Tonight as Crew Scans Eyes and Veins

    A Roscosmos space freighter is due to arrive at the International Space Station tonight and replenish the Expedition 68 crew. While they wait for the space delivery, the orbital residents stayed busy throughout Thursday working on more eye and vein scans, a plant habitat, and a spacesuit. At 10:49 p.m. EDT tonight, two cosmonauts will …

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/26/2022

    82 Progress (82P) Launch: Yesterday at 7:20 PM CT, 82P launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying food, fuel, and supplies to the ISS. 82P will dock to the ISS Poisk Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM-2) zenith port on Thursday, October 27th at 9:49 PM CT after completing a 34-orbit rendezvous. Payloads: Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG): Cleaning …

  • Crew Awaits Space Cargo and Works Eye and Heart Health

    A Roscosmos resupply ship is in orbit today chasing the International Space Station for a Thursday night docking. Meanwhile, the seven Expedition 68 crew members scanned their veins, studied plasma physics, reviewed U.S. cargo mission procedures, and practiced controlling a new robotic arm on Wednesday. Three tons of food, fuel, and supplies are packed inside …

  • Webb Offers Never-Before-Seen Details of Early Universe

    A James Webb Space Telescope image of galaxy cluster MACS0647 and the very distant galaxy MACS0647-JD. At left, the cluster appears as a sea of galaxies on a black background. The image is punctuated by a few foreground stars with prominent diffraction spikes. Three small boxes outlined in white mark the locations of the three images of galaxy MACS0647-JD. They are numbered 1, 2, and 3. Enlarged images of these boxes appear in a column down the right side of the screen. They are labeled JD 1, JD 2, and JD 3. The three images of MACS0647-JD from Webb show two, distinct features that are differently colored, with the larger area appearing redder and the smaller one appearing bluer.

    Editor's Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was specially designed to detect the faint infrared light from very distant galaxies and give astronomers a glimpse at the early universe. The nature of galaxies during this early period …